Native Villages and Village Sites East of the MississippiU.S. Government Printing Office, 1919 - 111 من الصفحات |
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Algonquian tribes AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY BULLETIN ancient village appearance bark Bartram building built BULLETIN 69 PLATE BUREAU OF AMERICAN cabins Cahokia Carolina century Charlevoix Cherokee Chickasaw chief Choctaw circular clay coast confederacy corn council house County covered Creek towns Cussetah custom described diameter dwellings east eastern erected ETHNOLOGY ETHNOLOGY BULLETIN 69 evidently feet fire Five Nations Florida ground habitations Hochelaga HOUSATONIC howses Illinois Illinois tribes Indians Iroquoian Iroquois Lake later league left bank linguistic lodge long house Mahican Mascoutens mats matts mentioned miles Mississippi mounds mouth Muskhogean Muskhogean tribes Narraganset Natchez native tribes Onondaga palisades Père poles Pomeioc present probably region River roof rotunda Saponi scattered Seminole settlement Shawnee shore side Siouan Siouan tribes South Carolina square stood stream structures surrounded Tamaroa territory occupied Timucuan town house trees Tutelo valley village sites Virginia visited wall wigwams winter
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الصفحة 19 - On our coming into the house, two mats were spread out to sit upon, and immediately some food was served in well made red wooden bowls ; two men were also despatched at once with bows and arrows in quest of game, who soon after brought in a pair of pigeons which they had shot. They likewise killed a fat dog, and skinned it in great haste, with shells which they had got out of the water.
الصفحة 29 - After proceeding 40 leagues on this same route, we arrived at the mouth of our river; and, at 42 and a half degrees of latitude, we safely entered Missisipi on the 17th of June, with a joy that I cannot express.• Section 4.
الصفحة 19 - I sailed to the shore," he says, " in one of their canoes, with an old man, who was the chief of a tribe, consisting of forty men and seventeen women ; these I saw there in a house well constructed of oak bark, and circular in shape, so that it had the appearance of being well built, with an arched roof.
الصفحة 14 - The best of their houses are covered very neatly, tight and warm, with barks of trees, slipped from their bodies at those seasons when the sap is up, and made into great flakes, with pressure of weighty timber, when they are green.
الصفحة 95 - RELATION OR Journall of the beginning and proceedings of the English Plantation settled at Plimoth in New England, by certaine English Aduenturers both Merchants and others.
الصفحة 26 - At heade sat a woman, at his feete another, on each side sitting uppon a Matte uppon the ground were raunged his chiefe men on each side the fire, tenne in a ranke, and behinde them as many yong women, each a great Chaine of white Beades over their shoulders...
الصفحة 80 - Their houses are not many together, for in one house an hundred of them do lodge; they being made much like a great barn...
الصفحة 12 - The houses were made with long young sapling trees bended and both ends stuck into the ground. They were made round like unto an arbor, and covered down to the ground with thick and well wrought mats; and the door was not over a yard high, made of a mat to open. The chimney was a wide open hole in the top, for which they had a mat to cover it close when they pleased. One might...
الصفحة 61 - On the top of, and over the poles forming the roof, is placed a complete mat of willow boughs, of half a foot or more in thickness, which protects the timbers from the dampness of the earth with which the lodge is covered from bottom to top, to the depth of two or three feet; and then with a hard or tough clay, which is impervious to water, and which with long use becomes quite hard...
الصفحة 29 - This Village Consists of three Nations who have gathered there - Miamis, Maskoutens, and Kikabous. The former are the most civil, the most liberal, and the most shapely. They wear two long locks over their ears, which give them a pleasing appearance. They are regarded as warriors, and rarely undertake expeditions without being successful. They are very docile, and listen quietly to What is said to Them; and they appeared so eager to Hear Father Alloues when he Instructed them that they gave Him but...